This is a prayer from Rabbi Michele Medwin. Written as she was reflecting on the traditional Mi Sheberach prayer and wanted to adapt it for someone dealing with chronic illness. Mi Sheberach for Chronic Illness [Read more…]
I just finished reading a new book called “The Spiritual Child” by Lisa Mille, PhD. The book was mentioned in a fairly recent David Brooks op-ed in the N.Y. Times. The thesis is, if I [Read more…]
Portion “Shlach L’cha” (Numbers 13) is a fascinating portion. This is the section where Moses sends representatives of the tribes to scout out Cannan. Most come back warning that the land is filled with giants [Read more…]
I am concerned that there may be a growing trend that the Jewish institutional world has a focus that is skewed mostly on the young. Emphasis on youth and education of the youth has been [Read more…]
The third portion of the book of Numbers contains a wide variety of issues. We read about instructions for the lamp stands, the Levites, a recounting of the Passover and a not unfamiliar theme of [Read more…]
Ok! Ok! Ok! We are all Baby Boomers who either fashion ourselves from Haight-Ashbury, Rodeo Drive, 5th Avenue or somewhere in between! We either care or we don’t care what we look like and the [Read more…]
Rabbi Mark Levin, a colleague and close friend of Rabbi Address, originally posted this commentary to Facebook, and we repost it here with his permission. [Read more…]
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